Everybody wants to be the latest Stark kid with their big bad dire wolf companion/mount.

Remember what happened to the Stark kids.

I would be all in on it, if while we had it, it acted as our wolf (still have to "summon wolf" to activate). I don't feel like dicking around with capturing a new wolf every time, enrage wolf1234, summon wolf. It is one quick bit of code, but I just don't care enough.

Agreed. I've seen quite a few outside of their crates already. It won't be rare enough to warrant the price, but some people are impatient and will pay a premium price to get it immediately. I'd rather wait a few days for them to be more common than pay the highest price possible, which I have done in the past for minipets, but learned my lesson.

Why are all these pets collared, badges, etc? If you released pets without these things, people would have to spend credits to add all those things. Gold sink.

Because with a collar they are worth a lot more than without a collar? The standard is usually "dollars gets you permanent things". The mount is worth at least 250 credits *edit: purely from the collar cost, not going into how much people will actually pay for it. If it didn't have the collar it would be equivalent to any other legendary non-fly mount and be worth around 150k which would feel worse when you won it and makes it harder to sell as the person who buys it either has to buy a collar or run the risk of losing it forever.

Wait until you've led a combat group in Targossas and had to ask ten times for people to follow you, then you'll see why it's useful. Of course, chances of the people who can't follow the basic instruction to follow in a timely manner having you as a mutual ally are really fucking low.

Wait until you've led a combat group in Targossas and had to ask ten times for people to follow you, then you'll see why it's useful. Of course, chances of the people who can't follow the basic instruction to follow in a timely manner having you as a mutual ally are really fucking low.

I doubt this problem exists only in Targossas. All cities will have this problem unless you only roll with a small group of combatants who do this on the reg.